No TiVo for me!!!

Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 - 10:57 pm

I am not one of those anti-technology Luddites. In fact, I was one of the first people with a VCR (1978) and a non-toy PC (1985) in my circle of family and friends. In fact, I like gadgets!
But I've declared my home a TiVo free zone. I don't care how much I hear about "TiVoing" this or that. Where some people see a device that streamlines and simplifies television viewing, I see an infernal machine that makes YOU march to IT'S drummer. I already have two VCRs I can set to record any show I want. And they do NOT record shows because they "think" I might like them.
Furthermore, I'm not paying $16.95 a month for a service that leaves me with hundreds and hundreds of hours of TV shows that I will never ever watch because I just plain hands down don't have the time.
Answer this, TiVo renters. Do you really watch every program that thing saves for you?? Tell the truth, now....
A columnist for the Los Angeles Times wrote a piece that made me realize I was not alone. You can read it by clicking below:
Meghan Daum: TiVo Tyranny -- The Latest in Self-Loathing
Are Ms. Daum and I right?
Or are we really just a bunch of technological reactionaries who wouldn't know a better mousetrap if it made all cats obsolete??